AWA first off was my 9th convention I attended. And the third time I visited it too in Atlanta GA. This con has quite a lot of grand memories of it as many of my friends are aware of! *^_~* If you arent....then yer in trouble :P Anyhoots... AWA was really a lot of fun but it held ALOT of problems such as: small hallways..(wayyy too small for comfort -_-'''), and the MOST DISORGANIZED COSPLAY EVER!...(if there was an award for the most disorganized cosplay...they would have come in first place..hey..its the truth). Unfortunatly when that moment came to picking up the forms to cosplay and all..the lady at the registration desk did not inform us of the differences of the cosplay forms..there were two piles and i thought both are the same...(wish they had a sign saying that they were different forms) The forms were ..one for non judging and the other for judging...unfortunatly to my screwed up brain, I wasnt aware of the wrong form being picked up. Mikey and I went on with our friends to fill out the form and submitted it. Later to our horror...we realized through one guy that the form was a non judging one and we fought to get the judging one. Thanks to my friend Phil Carr he was able to convince the guy into changing it to the judging form and boom.. we were the last cosplayers of the night. Hey it turned out great and we had fun! Mike was cosplaying as Nicholas Wolfwood from Trigun ( if you havent seen Trigun.. Pioneer has it and it should be coming out soon...hopefully..just e-mail us for more information and we d LOVE to spread the word of Trigun..which I think RULES!) , He carries a cross gun (the gun itself is about oh..a little over 5 feet tall.. uhm I do need to get the exact measurement of it...(heh heh) and he took it onto the stage and whadda know..(no offense to the religious peoples out there...) one fellow fan person said "JESUS CHRIST" and my cosplayers and I had a hard time not laughing. The hallways on the other hand was a pain in the butt...literally for those who had large props to carry about. I almost told Mike to leave his doggoned cross in the room so we didnt have to hollor " CAUTION: WIDELOAD" I think thats what they called it..but I was ahead of him and had to tell everyone who was too busy staring at things and drooling over the goodies to move their butts. I felt bad after doing that for the most part. I was scared someone would get poked in the eye in those hallways. Thankfully AWA found a new hotel and BOY am I glad! NUff of that ..so if I missed anything...ahh hell I ll include it next time :)
By:Kris Tucker
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